Algorithmic inference, political interest, and exposure to news and politics on Facebook

K Thorson, K Cotter, M Medeiros… - … Communication & Society, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… We ask, how does Facebook algorithmically infer what users are interested in, and how
do interest inferences shape news exposure? We weave together survey data and …

Disentangling user interest and conformity for recommendation with causal embedding

Y Zheng, C Gao, X Li, X He, Y Li, D Jin - Proceedings of the Web …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
… that learns representations where interest and conformity are … users and items with separate
embeddings for interest and … colliding effect of causal inference. Our proposed methodology …

Graph neural news recommendation with long-term and short-term interest modeling

L Hu, C Li, C Shi, C Yang, C Shao - Information Processing & Management, 2020 - Elsevier
… (2) Our model considers not only the long-term user interest but also the short-term interest.
(3) The topic information incorporated in the heterogeneous graph can help better reflect a …

Controllable multi-interest framework for recommendation

Y Cen, J Zhang, X Zou, C Zhou, H Yang… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
… We propose a greedy inference algorithm to approximately maximize the value function Q(u,…
The items retrieved by different user interests are fed into our aggregation module. After this …

Practice on long sequential user behavior modeling for click-through rate prediction

Q Pi, W Bian, G Zhou, X Zhu, K Gai - Proceedings of the 25th ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
user Interest Memory Network) to capture user interests from … us to handle the user interest
modeling with unlimited length … realtime inference, with hundreds of millions of users visiting …

Deep interest evolution network for click-through rate prediction

G Zhou, N Mou, Y Fan, Q Pi, W Bian, C Zhou… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - aaai.org
… to capture the latent user interest behind the user behavior data. … internal cognition, user
interest evolves over time dynamically. … interests to target item and overcomes the inference from …

How to make causal inferences using texts

N Egami, CJ Fong, J Grimmer, ME Roberts… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
… We next use g to write our causal quantity of interest in terms of the low-dimensional
representation. To make this concrete, consider a case where we have a binary nontext treatment …

Machine learning at facebook: Understanding inference at the edge

CJ Wu, D Brooks, K Chen, D Chen… - … symposium on high …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… , leading to overall better quality of user experience. In summary, the significant performance
variability observed for mobile inference introduces varied user experience. If taking a …

Causal intervention for leveraging popularity bias in recommendation

Y Zhang, F Feng, X He, T Wei, C Song, G Ling… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
… popularity bias in the inference stage that generates top𝐾 … a new training and inference
paradigm for recommendation … to discover user real interests and the inference adjustment with …

Model-agnostic counterfactual reasoning for eliminating popularity bias in recommender system

T Wei, F Feng, J Chen, Z Wu, J Yi, X He - Proceedings of the 27th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
… To this end, we resort to causal inference which is the science of analyzing the relationship
… though the user is more interested in basketball. Such bias is removed in the inference stage …